[Redneck]

You made a great point, a lot of other areas do benefit from mining, but it's at our expense. Do you really think people in tampa know what TECO does, some do, but most dont. A lot of the coal money that people around here work so hard for goes to other states and makes other men/women rich. It's just ironic that so much money is created out of this area, but as the list CIG107 provided shows, it doenst stay here.

I'd say plenty in Tampa knows what TECO does considerin they get to see trains loaded down with coal enter and exit the coal burnin plant everyday. Just like Progress Fuels, TECO bought out a coal company here. Diamond May USE to be Kentucky May til Progress Fuels bought them out.